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‘Spanish-Moroccan Brotherhood’ and the Spanish Protectorate Debated
May 10, 2023From 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Samuel de los Santos y Gener, 9).
From 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
On Wednesday, May 10, Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the University of Aberdeen, has organized this conference as part of the activities held to take a closer historical and cultural look at the "Exhibition of Moroccan Art: Cordoba, 1946".
As part of the project Exhibition of Moroccan Art: Cordoba, 1946, which began with the opening last March 4 of an exhibition by the same name, Casa Árabe, with the cooperation of the University of Aberdeen, has created a schedule of complementary activities with the goal of providing a holistic approach to this entire historical process.
One of these is the holding of the congress titled “Spanish-Moroccan Brotherhood and the Spanish Protectorate Debated: A historical-cultural approach to the exhibition of Moroccan Art (Cordoba, 1946), to be held on May 10 at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
The purpose of this congress is to analyze the exhibition’s historical context, including its colonial aspects, the rise of Moroccan nationalism during the Protectorate, and the role of fine arts and music in legitimizing the colonial administration. The sessions will deal with the discourse of “Spanish-Moroccan brotherhood,” analyzing the socio-political relations between the Spanish colonial administration and Moroccan society, in a deeply complex and disfigured entity which, albeit sporadically, affected the daily lives of citizens on both shores.
Organized by: Marcos de la Fuente (Casa Árabe) Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Aberdeen) Javier Rosón (Casa Árabe)
Photo: Zubillaga (1946) Moroccans with local children. In the middle are Muhammad Daoud and Abdeslam Alami Municipal Archives of Cordoba Collection. Víctor Escribano Ucelay (1905-1978).
One of these is the holding of the congress titled “Spanish-Moroccan Brotherhood and the Spanish Protectorate Debated: A historical-cultural approach to the exhibition of Moroccan Art (Cordoba, 1946), to be held on May 10 at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
The purpose of this congress is to analyze the exhibition’s historical context, including its colonial aspects, the rise of Moroccan nationalism during the Protectorate, and the role of fine arts and music in legitimizing the colonial administration. The sessions will deal with the discourse of “Spanish-Moroccan brotherhood,” analyzing the socio-political relations between the Spanish colonial administration and Moroccan society, in a deeply complex and disfigured entity which, albeit sporadically, affected the daily lives of citizens on both shores.
Organized by: Marcos de la Fuente (Casa Árabe) Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University of Aberdeen) Javier Rosón (Casa Árabe)
Photo: Zubillaga (1946) Moroccans with local children. In the middle are Muhammad Daoud and Abdeslam Alami Municipal Archives of Cordoba Collection. Víctor Escribano Ucelay (1905-1978).
SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. Congress opening event
Javier Rosón and
Marcos de la Fuente (Casa Árabe)
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (University
of Aberdeen)
Luis Valdelomar (Architect)
11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Contextualizing the Spanish Protectorate: Between colonialism and
Moroccan nationalism
11:00 a.m. - José Antonio González Alcantud
(University of Granada) 1929 pavilion, troops from the Rif, craft
exhibitions. a series on colonial contact in Seville, Cordoba and
Granada (1929-1946)
11:30 a.m. - Eric Calderwood (University of Illinois)
The art of colonialism
12:00 p.m. - Hasna Daoud (president of the M.
Daoud Foundation for History and Culture) The image of Tetouan historian
Mohamed Daoud and his role in the Moroccan nationalist movement on the
path towards independence
12:30 p.m. - Debate
1:00 p.m. - Break
5:00 to
7:30 p.m. Exploring the Cordoba Exhibition of Moroccan Art in 1946
5:00
p.m. - Guillermo López Merino (University of Cordoba) Costumbrism in the
image of heritage in Cordoba
5:30 p.m. - José Manuel Recio Espejo
(“Nicolay Masyuk” Natural Classroom at the University of Cordoba) The
landscape in northern Morocco according to painter M. Bertuchi and other
traveling artists
6:00 p.m. - Amin Chachoo (musician and musicologist)
The Andalusi Orchestra of Tetouan and the foundation of the
Spanish-Moroccan Music Conservatory
6:30 p.m. - Debate
SPEAKERS
Eric Calderwood
Eric Calderwood is Professor of
Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at the University of Illinois,
where he is also a professor in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, the Department of History, and the Center for South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard University
in 2011. His first book, Colonial al-Andalus, was published by Harvard
University Press in 2018 and has been translated into Spanish with the
title “Al Ándalus en Marruecos” (Almuzara, 2019). His second book, On
Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus, will be published by
the Harvard University Press in May 2023.
Amin Chaachoo
Amin Chaachoo is
a musician and musicologist from Tetouan, Morocco. With a degree in
Andalusi Music from the Tetouan Music and Dance Conservatory, a degree
in Hispanic Philology, a published work on Moorish “jarchas,” and a
Master’s degree in French Philology, he completed his thesis on the
Semiology of Andalusi Music. Amin is also a PhD candidate in Aesthetics
of Andalusi Music, philosophy and metaphysics of the music of
Al-Andalus, first violinist of the Tetouan Conservatory Orchestra (the
city’s most important Andalusi music orchestra) and the founder and
director of the Tetouan-Asmir Center for Musicology Research. He stands
out as the author of several treatises on Andalusi music in several
languages, having won the “Villa de Frigiliana” First Prize for Andalusi
and Morisco Studies, for having brought back Andalusi musical theory.
Hasna Daoud
Hasna Daoud is a member of the Tetouan Council of the Ulema,
president of the M. Daoud Foundation for History and Culture, and a
member of several associations involved in social and cultural
activities. A researcher, poet, writer in the historical, literary and
social arenas, she has taken part in colloquiums and cultural events in
Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Spain. Her most significant latest
publications include Characteristics of Tetouan Society, Excerpts from
Tetouan’s Folk Literature and the Memoirs of Mohamed Daoud. She has also
carried out the editing for 12 tomes in The History of Tetouan, by
Mohamed Daoud, as well as works like Book of Tetouan’s Proverbs, the
Families of Tetouan, Attakmila and Morocco’s Coins Throughout One
Century.
José Antonio González Alcantud
José Antonio González Alcantud
is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada and
Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences of Spain. He has dedicated an important part of his work to
analyze the Andalusian, Moroccan and Orientalist world in different
facets, including the counter-cultural. Among his best known works we
can point out: Lo moro. Las lógicas de la derrota y la formación del
estereotipo islámico (Everything Moorish: The logics of defeat and
formation of Islamic stereotypes, 2002); La fábrica de los estereotipos.
Francia, nosotros y la europeidad (The Factory of Stereotypes: France,
Us and Europeanness, 2006); Sísifo y la ciencia social. Variaciones de
la antropología crítica (Sisyphus and Us: Variations on critical
anthropology, 2008), Racismo elegante. De la teoría de las razas
culturales a la invisibilidad del racismo cotidiano (Elegant Racism:
From cultural race theory to the invisibility of everyday racism, 2011);
El mito de al Ándalus (The Myth of Al-Andalus, 2014). Historia colonial
de Marruecos, 1894-1961 (Colonial History of Morocco: 1894-1961, 2019)
and Verdad, posverdad, suprarrealidad (Truth, Post-Truth and
Supra-Reality, 2022). Amongst the collective works to which he has
contributed, we would highlight: El Orientalismo desde el Sur
(Orientalism from the South,2006); La Conferencia de Algeciras en 1906.
Un banquete colonial (The Algeciras Conference in 1906: A colonial
banquet, 2007); La Alhambra, lugar de la memoria y el diálogo (The
Alhambra, a Place of Memory and Dialogue, 2008), Europa y la
contracultura (Europe and Counterculture, 2020) and Nuevos iberismos
(New Iberianisms, 2022).
Guillermo L. López Merino
Holder of a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Cordoba, and a Master’s degree in Archeology from the University of Seville, since 2020 López Merino has been a member of the Sísifo Research Group belonging to the the Archeology Department at the University of Cordoba. A PhD candidate since that same year, his thesis directors are Prof. Dr. Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil and Prof. Dr. Ana Ruiz Osuna. His field of work is architectural restoration, with a special emphasis on interventions of historicist nature, carried out mainly in the nineteenth century and under the Franco dictatorship. He has had several articles published on this topic to date.
Holder of a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Cordoba, and a Master’s degree in Archeology from the University of Seville, since 2020 López Merino has been a member of the Sísifo Research Group belonging to the the Archeology Department at the University of Cordoba. A PhD candidate since that same year, his thesis directors are Prof. Dr. Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil and Prof. Dr. Ana Ruiz Osuna. His field of work is architectural restoration, with a special emphasis on interventions of historicist nature, carried out mainly in the nineteenth century and under the Franco dictatorship. He has had several articles published on this topic to date.
José Manuel Recio Espejo
José Manuel Recio Espejo is a professor at the University of Cordoba,
winner of the National Environment Award of 1986, a member of the Royal
Academy of Cordoba and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine. He performs research on the natural environment of northern
Morocco, which has taken form in a doctoral thesis and several
scientific publications in domestic and foreign journals. He is the
director responsible for several projects subsidized by the AECI which
gave support to the research carried out, and has also authored several
articles on Spanish-Moroccan culture, in relation with
nineteenth-century travelers in that country, especially painters
Mariano Bertuchi and José Cruz Herrera, with pictorial exhibitions
organized through the “Nicolay Masyuk” Classroom at the rectorate of the
University of Cordoba and on that same city’s Provincial Council. Luis
Valdelomar Escribano Luis Valdelomar Escribano earned his bachelor’s
degree degree in Architecture from the University of Navarre. A manager
of Urban Planning for Cordoba from 2019 to 2022, he was a member of the
drafting team which reviewed the General Urban Development Plan of
Cordoba (PGOU) from 1996 to 2000. He headed the technical office of the
Urban Planning Department’s Planning Service.